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Did you not mark your calendars? Shame, shame.
Last year +Scott Cramer dared me to sit under my desk at work and share a picture; I did, he reshared and viral chaos ensued ;P
It was so much fun that we decided to make it an annual event, so get under your desk (or kitchen table or coffee table), take a pic and post it on G+ with the ridiculously long hashtag #InternationalTakeAPictureUnderYourDeskDay ! And, mind your noggin.
Last year some companies even got their whole office involved; along with kids and pets - sitting under your desk is for everyone ;P
It's Friday. You aren't really working anyway.
Original post from 2012: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ScottCramer/posts/ZpCndemLEQ5#+ScottCramer/posts/ZpCndemLEQ5

Amen! I know a lot of chronically late people that think its cute or funny or they think themselves "whimsical". No. You're not. You're rude, disrespectful and irresponsible.

And it is not that we lead ‘busy lives’. That’s a given, we all do, and it’s a cop out to use that as an excuse. It’s simply that some people no longer even pretend that they think your time is as important as theirs. And technology makes it worse. It seems texting or emailing that you are late somehow means you are no longer late.

Rubbish.

You are rude. And inconsiderate.

Yeah, you're not running late. You're an asshole. I admit it, I'm a stickler for time. I always have been, for as long as I can remember. If you tell me something starts at 4:30, I will be there to get it started at 4:30, not 4:35 and certainly not 5:00. If I tell you to meet me at 4:30 you should be there by 4:30, not calling me at 4:35 to tell me you're running late. For business, if you keep 10 people waiting 10 minutes you've just wasted 100 minutes. Those minutes cannot be reclaimed. "I always run late, it's just in my nature." Self-awareness is a critical life skill. If you know you always run late, leave early. For the record, yes, I will leave you and I will start without you.

h/t +Caroline Lobban ___Amen! I know a lot of chronically late people that think its cute or funny or they think themselves "whimsical". No. You're not. You're rude, disrespectful and irresponsible.

And it is not that we lead ‘busy lives’. That’s a given, we all do, and it’s a cop out to use that as an excuse. It’s simply that some people no longer even pretend that they think your time is as important as theirs. And technology makes it worse. It seems texting or emailing that you are late somehow means you are no longer late.

I had a terrible time deciding what to read today! I hate that. When in doubt, I always pick up a book from a series I'm reading (Bones or Harry Potter these days). When I set my 2015 reading goal, I'm going to pick the books ahead of time and force myself to stick with the list.

We'll see how that goes. :P

I had a terrible time deciding what to read today! I hate that. When in doubt, I always pick up a book from a series I'm reading (Bones or Harry Potter these days). When I set my 2015 reading goal, I'm going to pick the books ahead of time and force myself to stick with the list.

So, I went to vote on the goodreads.com choice awards only to realize that I've only read one book in all of the categories. LOL. How to people keep up with current books when there are so many books written before this year to read?! And I read a lot!

So, I went to vote on the goodreads.com choice awards only to realize that I've only read one book in all of the categories. LOL. How to people keep up with current books when there are so many books written before this year to read?! And I read a lot!___

But here’s the thing: You don’t want to believe your grandmother is poisoning you. You know that she loves you—there’s no doubt of that—and she’s so marvelously grandmotherly and charming. And you know that she would never want to poison you. So despite your better judgment, you eat the food until you've passed out so many times that you can’t keep doubting yourself.

Resharing to the public. It's a fascinating story. ___Shared for continued readings. So far, very fascinating!

SpaceShipTwo went down today during a test flight over the Mojave Desert. We're still awaiting further details, but we are getting reports from the highway patrol that one of the pilots was killed, the other severely injured. +Virgin Galactic will have a statement soon.___+Scott Corbin - Because you like science and space. :)

The first poll pitted Babylon 5 against its contemporary Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and B5 won handily. This poll pits B5 against Star Trek: The Next Generation. So, which was the better show? Please vote and reshare the poll. ___#trekkie

On the transaction side, since the vendor is also the payment authorization system, you are giving all of your information to whoever you are buying something from. As a user, you have already provided a great deal of data through the loyalty/rewards app. On top of this, CurrentC needs an immense amount of personal data just to access your bank account. This includes your physical address, social security number, and everything attached to your bank account. On top of this, the CurrentC app requests that you grant it access to a ton of information on your phone. This includes health data and location data. Again, since in this situation the vendor you are buying from is also the payment system, you are handing all of this information over to the companies you are buying things from through CurrentC.

Hey look, +Russell Holly goes ahead and explains some actual reasons why CurrentC isn't a very good idea. Way better than the current cries of "OMG they took our Apple Pay / Google Wallet, WE MUST UNTIE" coming from the Internets and from nearly all tech reporting.___Scary.

On the transaction side, since the vendor is also the payment authorization system, you are giving all of your information to whoever you are buying something from. As a user, you have already provided a great deal of data through the loyalty/rewards app. On top of this, CurrentC needs an immense amount of personal data just to access your bank account. This includes your physical address, social security number, and everything attached to your bank account. On top of this, the CurrentC app requests that you grant it access to a ton of information on your phone. This includes health data and location data. Again, since in this situation the vendor you are buying from is also the payment system, you are handing all of this information over to the companies you are buying things from through CurrentC.

This is a rather strange op-ed, and I'm not really sure what I think about it. Charles C. W. Cooke is a noted columnist from the right, a staff writer for the National Review. (And I mean quite far right, in that there have been some questions about his association with Holocaust denial in the past) And today he's writing an op-ed in the New York Times about gun rights: he argues that in America, black people have historically not had equal access to guns, even (especially) when these guns were their sole means of defense against white violence, and the current extreme whiteness and implicit racism of the NRA (he calls out Wayne LaPierre in particular) is pushing even further against them.

What's interesting about this piece is that it isn't reading to me like a standard let's-troll-everyone piece. He's actually written a fairly serious and honest appraisal of the history of black gun ownership in the US and its relationship to racial violence, from the 18th century to the rise of gun control laws in the 1980's. He even ends with this:

"[T]he famous photograph of [Malcolm X] standing at the window, rifle in hand, insisting on black liberation “by any means necessary,” is about as American as it gets. It should be celebrated just like the “Don’t tread on me” Gadsden flag. By not making that connection, the movement is losing touch with one of its greatest triumphs and forsaking a prime illustration of why its cause is so just and so crucial."

What's fascinating about this is that we are used to seeing gun ownership arguments in the US ultimately have a very strong racial subtext, of "white people need guns to protect themselves from black people and keep the black people in line." This isn't even me saying that: Cooke's op-ed is quite explicit about it as well, and any history book that covers the history of either Reconstruction, the post-Reconstruction era, or the history of guns in the US will tell you about that in great detail.

Here we're seeing a pro-gun argument from a different side. In fact, this argument feels exactly like something Huey Newton would have written 40 years ago. (Well, modulo a rather different writing style)

So I'm not sharing this to either advocate or oppose its view, but to note that we're seeing a branch of the argument over guns which we rarely see very publicly in the US: advocacy of guns as, essentially, protection against the failure of the state monopoly on force, but seen as a genuine universal for all the citizens. It's uncommon, and it made me think, and so I pass it on to you.___Great commentary by Yonatan. Interesting read altogether.

Bored by #OnePlus #InsanityWeek ? Six phones in three days is a bit of a snoozefest. Now that it’s Day 4 let’s double that and give away 12 phones in 24 hours.

1. Share this post to public and tag at least 2 friends in your own post.2. Fill out the following form: http://bit.ly/OPInsanityWkD4 (it only takes 1 minute!).3. Go insane!

Interested in the 2014 flagship killer? A new winner will be chosen and announced every two hours so the sooner you enter, the better your chances are. Things are going to get crazy up in here. The contest for Day 4 starts today at 1.00 pm GMT (7.00 am CST) and will close on Friday, October 17 at 1.00 pm (7.00 am CST).

More info about this contest: http://bit.ly/InsanityWkD4___+Matt Lorence +Misse H

I shouldn't have read this because: spoilers. BUT... I just started book 1 and wanted to know where it was in their list. Now, I have the sadz. At least, I've already forgotten in which book the SAD ahppens. :-/

I shouldn't have read this because: spoilers. BUT... I just started book 1 and wanted to know where it was in their list. Now, I have the sadz. At least, I've already forgotten in which book the SAD ahppens. :-/___

There will come a day when I'm feeling confident enough to make this meal. I'm finally beginning to enjoy cooking. I like being able to read through a recipe and think, "I can do that!" The turning point for me, as far as finding cooking enjoyable when I used to look at it as a chore, has been being around two people who love to cook and enjoy trying new things. That sort of audience is a pleasure to cook for (and with). Also, I love food! I like taking control of what I'm eating and what I want to experience.

#recipes #carnitas

There will come a day when I'm feeling confident enough to make this meal. I'm finally beginning to enjoy cooking. I like being able to read through a recipe and think, "I can do that!" The turning point for me, as far as finding cooking enjoyable when I used to look at it as a chore, has been being around two people who love to cook and enjoy trying new things. That sort of audience is a pleasure to cook for (and with). Also, I love food! I like taking control of what I'm eating and what I want to experience.

As I tried to make clear on Maher’s show, what we need is honest talk about the link between belief and behavior. And no one is suffering the consequences of what Muslim “extremists” believe more than other Muslims are. The civil war between Sunni and Shia, the murder of apostates, the oppression of women—these evils have nothing to do with U.S. bombs or Israeli settlements. Yes, the war in Iraq was a catastrophe—just as Affleck and Kristof suggest. But take a moment to appreciate how bleak it is to admit that the world would be better off if we had left Saddam Hussein in power. Here was one of the most evil men who ever lived, holding an entire country hostage. And yet his tyranny was also preventing a religious war between Shia and Sunni, the massacre of Christians, and other sectarian horrors. To say that we should have left Saddam Hussein alone says some very depressing things about the Muslim wo... more »

As I tried to make clear on Maher’s show, what we need is honest talk about the link between belief and behavior. And no one is suffering the consequences of what Muslim “extremists” believe more than other Muslims are. The civil war between Sunni and Shia, the murder of apostates, the oppression of women—these evils have nothing to do with U.S. bombs or Israeli settlements. Yes, the war in Iraq was a catastrophe—just as Affleck and Kristof suggest. But take a moment to appreciate how bleak it is to admit that the world would be better off if we had left Saddam Hussein in power. Here was one of the most evil men who ever lived, holding an entire country hostage. And yet his tyranny was also preventing a religious war between Shia and Sunni, the massacre of Christians, and other sectarian horrors. To say that we should have left Saddam Hussein alone says some very depressing things about the Muslim world.___

A fascinating subject. The article is entirely too short for my liking. So, I've added Allyson Hobbs' book A Chose Exile to my "To Read" list.

h/t +Keith Wilson

"A Chosen Exile": Black People Passing as White in America.

❝ It was the woman's mother with distressing news: Her father was dying, and she needed to return home immediately to tell him goodbye.

The cousin replied, "I can't. I'm a white woman now."

She missed her father's funeral, and never saw her mother or siblings again. ❞___A fascinating subject. The article is entirely too short for my liking. So, I've added Allyson Hobbs' book A Chose Exile to my "To Read" list.

I have a feeling that's a rabbit hole I don't have time to go down. Though, I find the idea of the subject endlessly fascinating. I came across the phrase in a review for the linked book. Here's a port of the review:

Anyhow, this is only one of many interesting discussions Fallon has with himself in this book. Another fascinating item is how epigenetic tagging works to pass on things like PTSD vulnerability through families, or the tendency to put on weight under stress--perhaps because a grandmother once endured a famine.

Note to self: Research epigenetic tagging.

I have a feeling that's a rabbit hole I don't have time to go down. Though, I find the idea of the subject endlessly fascinating. I came across the phrase in a review for the linked book. Here's a port of the review:

Anyhow, this is only one of many interesting discussions Fallon has with himself in this book. Another fascinating item is how epigenetic tagging works to pass on things like PTSD vulnerability through families, or the tendency to put on weight under stress--perhaps because a grandmother once endured a famine.___

I found this an rather interesting article, in particular the implications of the environment at an early age. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/life-as-a-nonviolent-psychopath/282271/?single_page=true___Fascinating article. I'm interested in reading the guy's book.

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